Thanksgiving or July 4th

hardlyworking - Thanksgiving Page I of 3 Thanksgiving Last revised by qross/earninq, MK Gross 11 Oct 2011 Advanced Beginning ESL Lesson Plan Phone exercise: Which Stores Plan to be Open over Thanksgiving? Objective: To develop and reinforce conversational skills in an advanced beginning ESL class of 8 to 12 students. To learn American cultural practices of holiday observances that affect store hours. To practice carrying on a phone conversation. To practice presenting material to the class. To produce a chart to take home to share with family. Time: 1.5 hours The activities presented here will reinforce the concepts from a previous lesson of: using a calendar; telling time; differentiating pronunciation of "15" and "50"; planning a conversation (10-15 minutes) The activities presented here will introduce the conversational paradigm for asking a store its planned hours for a particular day (15 minutes) The activities here will give the students a chance to work in pairs to plan a conversation, conduct a spontaneous(1 O minutes), constrained conversation (25 minutes) ; record information(5 - 1 O minutes); present findings to the class (15 minutes) Media: Students will bring a cell phone to class or arrange to share one. Hand out #1 : Calendar page from either July or November, depending on season Hand out #2: When is the Last Class? Pointing to the right day of the week Hand out #3: List of stores with two possible headers--Will your store be open on July 4th? Will you store be open on Thanksgiving? Pedagogical goals: To increase confidence in speaking and in using a planned conversation. To grasp the importance of choosing words that are more understandable over the telephone and to use the telephone in a guided environment. To add an additional conversational paradigm to the students' inventory. Procedure: Hand out color-coded items so that native speakers of the same language do not have the same color. Using Handouts #1 and #2, identify upcoming course days and holidays; engage students in call and response; engage students in individual response; have students ask each other. Explain the notion that store hours vary. Group students in pairs based on the color coded items OR have a more experience class self- assign. I will conduct a spontaneous phone conversation in front of the class. http://hardlyworking.wikispaces.com/Thanksgiving?f=print 2/25/2014 hardlyworking - Thanksgiving Page 2 of 3 Walk around room assisting students in writing up their planned conversation Have the most confident pair conduct a spontaneous phone conversation for the class Walk around room assisting students in conducting a phone dialogue Make sure that students are recording their answers and write up a grid on the board Have the students come to the front of the class to record their answers (this can be done en masse or one pair at a time, depending on the time remaining in class) Have the students present their findings Closing activity: Each student will take home a list of stores in the area and their holiday hours for the up-coming holiday. Last revised by gross/earning, MK Gross 11 Oct 2011 print using default mode, first page only Contributions to http://hardlyworking.wikispaces.com/ are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License. i![oo));m::TSI Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2014 Tangient LLC http://hardlyworking.wikispaces.com/Thanksgiving?f-=print 2/25/2014